articles, essays
No end, no fairytale: On the farce of a revolutionary ‘hey day’ in South African art, 2025, Self-Pub
On Doom Scrolling and Tripping Balls, 2025, BubbleGum Club
The System Turn in Joburg Contemporary Art: Part II 2023, Artthrob
The System Turn in Joburg Contemporary Art: Part I 2023, Artthrob
sunday: the glitch in capitalist time, 2022, Mail & Guardian supplement, 12–14 [pdf]
"Not Without Controversy: Cape Town's Zeitz MOCAA," CANVAS 98 (2021): 110–115.
Destruction Styles: Black Aesthetics of Rupture and Capture, Radical Philosophy 2.08 (2020): 55–65 [pdf]
"An Extended Dialogue between [Photography] and [Stream of Consciousness] Mediated through [Noise]," Streams of Consciousness: A Concatenation of Dividuals, edited by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Archive Books: Berlin, 2019) 209–216. [pdf]
"Anxiety, Afropessimism and the University Shutdown," (gamEdze & gamedZe), South Atlantic Quarterly 118, no 1 (2019): 215–225 [pdf]
Time Consciousness, and the Trouble with a Black Aesthetic 2019, Artthrob
"Re-thinking Education as Conversation," (with Alana Blignaut), Ellipses 2 (2017–18)
"To be Born Free and Other Such Myths," in Tell Freedom (Kunsthal kAde: The Netherlands, 2017), 29–32. [pdf]
"a shorthand selection of history in and around the place we are bored of calling michaelis," in 2017 Graduate Show Catalogue (University of Cape Town: Cape Town, 2017) 10.
Making Room For True Protest, 2017, News24
African Art and Film Practices: Processes of Colonial Containment, (with Mzonke Maloney), 2017, Africanah
"Editorial: Why are we still writing about art?" 2017, adjective 3: 8–9. [pdf]
Calling for better curated spaces for knowledge production, (gameEdze & gamedZe) 2016, Centre for Curating the Archive
Old Buildings, New Conversations, 2017, ContemporaryAnd
Concerning Museums, 2017, adjective
To Hell With Monuments, 2016, Africanah
The Art World In South Africa Observed, 2016, Africanah
Decolonisation As Art Practice, 2015, Artthrob
Heritage For Sale: Bronze Casting and the Colonial Imagination, 2015, Artthrob
"Editorial: Salon For What?" (gamEdze & gamedZe), The Johannesburg Salon 9 (2015): 1–2 [pdf] OR [Download the full issue]
"Notes on Imagination" 34–43; "Black Imaginings" 120–121; "Azania-House: Intersectionality as a Catalyst for Black Imagination" 122– 125, The Johannesburg Salon 9 (2015) [pdf]
"Decolonial Painting Acts," ArtSOUTHAFRICA, 13, no 4 (2015): 24–26. [pdf]
situating art practices
Fire on the mountain: donna Kukama, 2025, blank studios
Kamyar Bineshtarigh: "Group Show", 2025, Southern Guild
For Ambivalent Black Figures, 2022, The Thinker 91(2): 58–64 [pdf]
Ulwandle: Aquatic De-Zoning, 2021, Mail & Guardian
"Reading the Dialectical, Reading with Ubuntu, Reading Underneath: With my softness I carve mountains, by Lungiswa Gqunta," in PALAIS 32 (2021): 162–173.
Hard rock, soft worlds: Thebe Phetogo's "Ko ga Lowe," 2021, Guns & Rain
dust minus zero [Randy Hartzenberg], 2021, in-review
Redacted portraits, temporary solutions: on the work of Lunga Ntila, 2020, Channel24
This Image of a Soweto Family During Lockdown Probes the Politics of Looking, 2020, Elephant Magazine
"Reflections on Home — In Motion," in There are Mechanisms in Place: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, edited by Nomusa Makhubu and Nkule Mabaso (Michaelis Galleries: Cape Town, 2019) 33–37. [pdf]
Ana Mendieta, Cinthia Marcelle, Grada Kilomba, 2018, The 10th Berlin Biennale
"Nicholas Hlobo: Curator of Texture," in Nicholas Hlobo: Zawelele ngale (Uppsala Art Museum: Sweden), 25–33. [pdf]
"The Immateriality of Experience: Buhlebezwe Siwani," in Telling A world (Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea: Milan, 2017), 186–191.
Sisipho Ngodwana: On Misbehaving Cultural Capital, 2017, Africanah
Senzeni Marasela and Asemahle Ntlonti at Blank Projects, 2017, Blank Projects
iQhiya, 22 July: The Hidden Curriculum 2017, Documenta14
Qokobe: Lungiswa Gqunta, 2016, WhatiftheWorld
Maquette sized ‘New Monuments,’ 2016, iOL
2 cents (reviews)
Perception, Instability: Kamil Hassim’s ‘Event Horizon’ at Number Four 2023, Artthrob
ghouls, guts, dust: donna Kukama's Ways of Remembering-Existing 2022, Artthrob
Sit down, be lumbung: Notes on documenta 2022, Artthrob
Good Feelings for what? Dada Khanyisa's Good Feelings 2020, Artthrob
Frequencies Too High: The Wretched and Dumile Feni at NAF, 2020, Artthrob
Away From Zero: Carries Mae Weems Over Time 2019, Artthrob
In The Between: Sam Nhlegethwa's 'Waiting' 2018, Artthrob
Defining Excellence: Jody Brand’s ‘You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down’ 2017, Artthrob
Ruga Explores Exile Within: Athi Patra Ruga's 'Queens in Exile', 2017, Mail & Guardian
Spaces are not neutral: Dorothee Kreudzfeldt at blank projects, 2017, Mail & Guardian
On Product Versus Process: Robin Rhode's 'Paths and Fields', 2017, Artthrob
The Parliament of Bodies: Some Thoughts, 2017, adjective
Capitalcentric Art Fairs Are not for Artists, 2017, Mail & Guardian
Art Fair Offers More Than Sales, 2017, Mail & Guardian
Floating in a Mind Map: Moshekwa Langa's 'Ellipses', 2016, Artthrob
Michaelis in the age of FMF: Inside Operatives, 2016, adjective
The Black Woman's Gaze: Florine Demosthene's 'The Burst', 2016, Artthrob
Centering the Human as Site of Memorial: Jabulani Dhlamini's 'Re-Capture', 2016, Artthrob
Giving Renewed Attention to Old Voices? ’50/50′ at the New Church Museum, 2016, Artthrob
The Contradictions of Living in the Past: Lizza Littlewort at 99 Loop, 2015, Artthrob
Whose ‘Death Speaks’? A Group Show at 6 Spin Street, 2015, Artthrob
Tensions Between Art and Site: Joburg Fringe, 2015, Artthrob
The Filthy Ground Upon Which We Walk: Subverting the Space of The Art Fair in Contemporary Cape Town, 2015, Art Meets
interviews and conversations
On Circuity and Iterative Practice: Yonela Makoba's Ritual Studies, 2025, Artthrob
A conversation between Siviwe James and Thulile Gamedze, 2025, INCCA
Rainbow Scale: Thebe Phetogo in conversation with Thulile Gamedze, 2021, Artthrob
On Precarity: A Series of Conversations, (with Ranjana Dave and Chintan Modi), 2020, Indent
